Thursday, June 12, 2014

Marvel Universe LIVE Finds Their Heroes

After
scouring the country to find the best of the best in live action
performers with an amazing
array of disciplines and skills, Feld Entertainment, Inc., the
worldwide leader in live touring family events, today reveals the final
cast of more than 50 performers ready to bring its most ambitious live
event experience to life in
Marvel Universe LIVE!. Debuting this Julyin Tampa, FL, before having its world premiere at New York City’s Barclays Center on Wednesday, August 13,
the show will be the most physically demanding in Feld Entertainment’s storied history and will stop in 85 cities nationwide.

Featuring the most Marvel characters ever in one production,
Marvel Universe LIVE! will be headlined by a cast trained in
everything from martial arts to motocross in order to bring the Marvel
Universe to the live action arena. Supported by a unique blend of aerial
stunts, pyrotechnics and state-of-the-art special
effects, the performers will bring an epic live action experience right
in front of audiences’ eyes every time.

After
an intensive eight month cross-country casting process that took place
in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Orlando and Ellenton, Florida,
with hundreds of hopefuls representing the United States,
Mexico, Hungary, France, United Kingdom, Russia, and Japan showing off their considerable skills, the finalensemble is set. When the spotlight finally shines, spectators
will see some of the world’s most gifted athletes and performers
including professional snow-skater and three-time X Games champ Phil
Smage (Captain America), WMX Pro National champion and
two-time X Games winner Ashley Fiolek (Hydra Agent), and 2012 X Games
Silver Medalist Louise Forsley (Black Widow). To depict the superlative
athleticism of some of Marvel’s most renowned heroes, Feld Entertainment
also has signed martial arts expert and AAU
Junior Olympics/National Champion Kirk Jenkins (Wolverine) and
long-time American Ninja Warrior professional course tester Eric Foster (Hawkeye).

“From
the beginning we knew that to pull off a show of this magnitude we had
to have a cast that was the closest thing we could find to real
life Super Heroes,” said Shanda Sawyer, director of Marvel Universe LIVE!
“These are intense roles that require performers who are experts in
their fields with the ability to take those skills and apply them to a
number of meticulously crafted sequences,
all designed to push the limits of anything the audience has ever seen
in an arena show of this caliber – and they need to do this day in and
day out.”

Marvel Universe LIVE!
will captivate audiences with an authentic
and original story that brings more than 25 Marvel characters together
on one epic quest. The story is framed around the battle over
the Cosmic Cube, the source of ultimate power and one of the most
feared and coveted treasures in
the Marvel Universe, that has been shattered into pieces by the mighty
Thor in order to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. With the
pieces scattered across the globe, Thor’s villainous brother, Loki,
devises a scheme to clone its powers, inciting
a threat that could not only decimate Earth but also obliterate the
Universe.

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